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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/04/2003
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ISBN: 9780099433484
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 160g
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RRP: £12.99
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a crematorium funeral exposes a love gone sour; a foreign hotel room becomes a diorama of despair as physical sickness becomes a metaphor for incurable grief. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome; in 'A Bad Son' a young boy from a damaged home searches for some kind of peace in the newly fallen snow.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/04/2003
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ISBN: 9780099433484
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 160g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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Brilliant... These 12 stories are among the most devastating you will read this year
Daily Telegraph
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This woman is a profound writer
Richard Ford
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An astonishing writer, with an imaginative empathy that seems to know no bounds
Time Out
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These are powerful, intimate and angry stories. Kennedy writes with flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud
Daily Mail
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The clarity, wit and descriptive intensity of (Kennedy's) style are uplifting and the collection ends on a note of fragile hope... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best
The Times
